Class schedule

Week 1
8/22 Introduction: how to use Max help; build a theremin
8/24 Introduction to Max tutorials, Darwin Grosse tutorials; blog introductions

Week 2
8/29 How to set up mics; avoiding feedback; working with digital audio interfaces;
Assignment 1 due - Grosse tutorials 1-3, Max Basic tutorials 1-8
8/31 Digital delays; Assignment 2, working through tutorials: Max Basic tutorials 9-15 (Abstractions); MSP Basics Tutorials 1-5; Grosse tutorials 4-8; the Global Transport (Max tutorial 19)

Week 3
[9/5 Labor Day - no class]
9/7 Assignment 3, working through tutorials (Max Basic tutorials 16-22 (Designing equations); MSP Synthesis tutorials 1-5 (Frequency modulation); Grosse tutorials 9-11

Week 4
9/12 Assignment 4 due: digital delay; Grosse tutorials 12-13
9/14 Assignment 5 due: perform in class with your patch; Grosse tutorials 14-15
Collaboration: start finding colleagues to work with

Week 5
9/19 Sound design and playback - Taylor sonification patch; Grosse tutorials 16-17 (Jitter)
9/21 Assignment 6, more tutorials: Max, Data and Interface tutorials; MSP Sampling tutorials 1-4

Week 6
9/26 Plan details for Project 1 - our first gig; Jitter Tutorials 1-4
9/28 Assignment 7, more tutorials (Max, Patcher Storage and Javascript tutorials; MSP Filter tutorials; Jitter tutorials 6-10, Chromakeying)

Week 7
10/3 Assignment 8, using other processing and synthesis (vocoding, granular, pitch shifting, etc.)
10/5 In-class improvising in teams (Assign. 8 cont.); Improvising vs. composing
10/6 Project 1 - first performance, Beckman Institute, 12:20-12:50 pm

Week 8
10/10 Assignment 9, MSP Panning and Analysis Tutorials; Jitter tutorials 11-14, Matrix positioning
10/12

Week 9
10/17 Jitter week - Assignment 10, Jitter tutorial 21, Working with live video and audio input
10/19

Week 10
10/24
10/26 (work up to Jitter tutorial 25, Tracking the position of a color in a movie)
Assignment 11 - in-class improv, combining audio and video

Week 11
10/31 Prepare for Project 2 - performance in Krannert Art Museum - other gig possibilities?
11/2 (At some point in the semester, maybe around here, the class morphs into an ensemble/improv group, rather than a class on how to use Max - so the rest of the semester may resemble a rehearsal schedule more than a class syllabus.)

Week 12
11/7
11/9

Week 13
11/14
11/16

[Fall break, 11/19 - 11/27]

Week 14
11/28
11/30

Week 15
12/5
12/7
Final performance - KAM, others?